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I love Firefox. Love it.
But I keep coming across sites that don't function properly with it. Is this Firefox's fault? No - Firefox follows standards nicely. But growing numbers of sites don't, and this is a big problem at a micro and macro level.
Chrome seems to have such a foothold that it is getting away with embrace/extend/extinguish and I think it's a very sad thing.
That was Internet Explorer 20 years ago and look where we are now.
I personally can't remember the last time I had issues with a site on Firefox in the last few years since I switched.
Discord and spotify web versions don’t work on Firefox for me. On discord in can’t connect to a call and Spotify doesn’t play songs or it takes a long time after pressing play for the song to start playing.
Both work flawlessly for me. In fact, discord on Firefox works much better than the standalone app specifically for calls.
Sounds to me like something is broken or misconfigured on your system.
I’d largely like to agree. My main issue is as others have said, some websites don’t work on Firefox due to Chrome basically being the standard. It’s annoying. And I do think people should still switch and try their best to stop using Chrome. Because IF we could get to a point where Firefox has a larger audience than it already has, the problem may end up stopping due to developers having more of a need to make sure their stuff is cross compatible with other browsers.
I've been using Firefox as my main browser for a long time. Sites that don't work in FF are very rare. If it's something I really need to access, I just use chrome/edge for that particular site. But as I said, it happens rarely, and there's an easy way to work around it.
I actually encountered the opposite. A site I've been using for roughly 7 years actually has massive issues on chrome that makes it unusable.
On Firefox? No problem at all.
Which site? Just curious. I've never encountered any issues whatsoever with either browser.
Decades old Firefox user here.
In the last week or two both Discord as well as Google Maps started not to work, they basically freeze up during/after they load, almost freezing up the whole browser as well (struggle to close the tabs they are on).
The weird thing is they both always used to work great up to just very recently, and nothing else has changed on my desktop, except for the normal OS updates semi daily.
(Speaking of the desktop version, on Fedora Linux.)
some websites don’t work on Firefox
Are you sure? Is there a list of these websites? I've been primarily using FF for a decade and haven't encountered any.
Same. Usually it's a case of "the site is broken on both", or a hard refresh is needed, so switching browsers feels like it works
I've had some map sites that just refuse to work on ff
I never had that issue, untill starting last week. Now Google Maps won't work, for some reason.
It worked for years before that, it's a recent thing, in my case at least. Makes me wonder what's going on.
It blows my mind how many people do you not understand how essentially useless Chrome is now and how much it has changed.
In my book, nothing changed because I refuse to run anything closed source on MY computer.
Very Stallman of you, unfortunately for many people's use cases they will want at least proprietary video codecs or drivers. You could even argue using most websites with minified JS is closed source.
Whatever you're willing to be exterminated for.
Edit: All you fucking morons come here and downvote me but fact of the matter is you will all die and there will be zero reproduction of humanity in far less than a decade from now.
Only Free and Open Source AI Software will save you. Only. But go on, like your vote makes any fucking difference.
Why're you so angry over this?
You read emotions in words written down. You a fishing. You are ignorant.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. I'm genuinely curious as to why you're getting so angry over this, that's all.
There's no angry. You're reading shit. Not observing a person.
OK, but can you see how calling people 'fucking morons' and saying they will all die might be misconstrued as sounding angry? This is obviously a topic you care about, else you wouldn't have commented at all. Do you think that adjusting your perceived tone might improve how you interact with people on a topic you care about?
Maybe. I'm working on that but prolly won't go far. I don't really give a fuck. Especially when you're a moron that thinks they can read people's emotions...digitally.
they can read people’s emotions…digitally.
People have been expressing emotion in the written form since writing has been a thing.
An Internet search on "expressing emotion in writing" will give you an education on the subject.
Yeah, lets switch to questionable ethics company number 2 and shady finances.
I used to use Firefox as my primary browser and sometimes even recommended it, but after all those articles I started digging a bit and doing research on what the browser calls and does and I was bit horrified. What I really don't like about this Mozilla situation is that tech people tend to see them as the "all savior Mozilla" while, in fact, they’re full of shit.
If you do care about freedom and your privacy use LibreWolf or Ungoogled Chromium.
What are these sources, but yes, LibreWolf is the way to go
If you do care about freedom and your privacy use LibreWolf or Ungoogled Chromium.
Neither of which are mentioned in the article, for some reason.
